Handbag with purse mounted therein



Nov. 26, 1957 J. BRILL HANDBAG WITH PURSE MOUNTED THEREIN Filed March 29, 1956 FIG. 1

FIG 3 1 INVENTOR. Jerry .Bri/Z FIG4 7MLATTORNEY 2,814,323 HANDBAG WITH PURSE MOUNTED THERElN Jerry Brill, New York, N. Y. Application March 29, 1956, Serial No. 574,711 1 Claim. (Cl. 150-29) This invention relates to handbags and, more particularly, to a novel combined handbag and purse assembly in which a purse is mounted in supported relation within a handbag.

Most ladies handbags, when purchased are equipped with various accessories including a smaller change purse. It is common knowledge that handbags tend to become carry-alls, particularly the larger handbags. As a consequence, when the user wishes to find her purse, it requires considerable groping and searching through the contents of the handbag, this often resulting in embarrassing delays, as when paying fares on buses or streetcars.

In accordance with the present invention, a purse is fixedly positioned in a handbag for ready and convenient access. This fixed positioning of the purse is effected by providing common hinge connections or axes for the frames of the handbag and purse, the hinges of the handbag frame being extended inwardly to also form the hinges for the purse frame.

For an understanding of the invention principles, refer ence is made to the following description of a typical embodiment thereof as illustrated in the accompanying drawing. In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation view of a handbag having a purse mounted therein in accordance with the invention, the material of the purse being transparent;

Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation view of the handbag;

Fig. 3 is a partial plan view of the common hinge, the handbag and purse frames being open; and

Fig. 4 is an axial sectional view of the common hinge and purse support.

Referring to the drawings, the invention is illustrated as incorporated in a unit comprising a handbag 10 having a purse 20 supported in a fixed, easily accessible position therein.

In the customary manner, handbag 10 includes a frame, comprising hingedly interconnected frame members 15, and a covering fabric 11. Members 15 are illustrated as U-shape and rectangular, but may have any desired configuration, shape, or size common to handbags. Covering fabric 11 is illustrated, by way of example only, as a plain and transparent plastic composition material. However, the covering fabric may be etched, sand-blasted, or opaque, and may be colored. Also, instead of being plain, as illustrated, fabric 11 may have designs imprinted or otherwise formed thereon. The fabric 11 may be colored in harmony or in contrast with the color of purse 20, and may be any suitable flexible fabric. The edges or bindings of fabric 11 may be stiff or flexible as desired.

Frame members 15 are illustrated as having a channel cross section, which is a common cross-sectional shape for nited States Patent handbag frames. However, the invention is in no way limited to any particular cross-section of members 15. The hinge ends of members 15 are flattened and preferably circular, as at 16, and hingedly interconnected by hinge constructions 30 as described more fully hereinafter. In the usual manner, members 15 carry coopei-able latch elements 12 and one frame member has a carrying handle 13 suitably attached thereto.

Purse 20 includes hingedly interconnected frame members 25 and a covering fabric 21. This fabric 21 may be any desired material, and may be transparent, opaque, plain, designed, or colored, either in harmony with or in contrast to handbag covering 11. Frame members 25 are illustrated, by way of example only and not in any limiting sense, as U-shape and of channel cross-section. The bights of the members carry interengageable latch elements 22. Members 25 have flattened, preferably circular hinge ends 26.

Each hinge 30 comprises a pin 31 having an enlarged, and preferably ornamental, outer head 32. Pin 31 extends through the hinge ends 16 of members 15 and the hinge ends 26 of members 25, and its inner end is headed as at 33. Between frame members 15 and 25, pin 31 extends through a spacer tube or sleeve 34. Sleeves 34 serve to position purse 20 substantially midway of the length of handbag 10.

It will thus be noted that, by virtue of the common hinges 30, purse 20 is fixedly positioned in a relatively accessible location in handbag 10, facilitating ready access to purse 20 irrespective of the magnitude or variety of the contents of handbag 10.

While a specific embodiment of the invention has been shown and described in detail to illustrate the application of the invention principles, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise without departing from such principles.

What is claimed is:

A combined handbag and purse assembly comprising, in combination, a handbag having a pair of first channel frame sections having flattened circular apertured ends, with corresponding flattened ends of the two first sections in overlapping engagement with each other, and a cover; a purse having a pair of second channel frame sections having flattened circular apertured ends, with corresponding ends of the two second sections in overlapping engagement with each other, and a covering; the distance between the ends of said first frame sections being substantially greater than the distance between the ends of said second frame sections; a pair of elongated pins each extending through the corresponding overlapped circular apertured ends of the two pairs of frame sections, each pin having an enlarged outer head outwardly of and overlying the associated overlapped flattened circular ends of the first frame sections, and having a head on its inner end inwardly of and engageable with the associated overlapped fiattened circular ends of the second frame sections; and a pair of spacer sleeves one mounted on each of said pins and extending between the ends of the first frame sections and the ends of the second frame sections.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Re. 17,514 McCabe et a1. Dec. 3, 1929 2,004,220 Sachs June 11, 1935 2,051,572 Peters Aug. 18, 1936 

